OHIO EXPRESS - Yummy Yummy Yummy (1968) - YouTube OHIO EXPRESS - Yummy Yummy Yummy (1968) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 22, 2013 The Ohio Express was a musical recording unit, mainly active from 1967 through 1970.The best known songs of Ohio Express (including their best scoring single, "Yummy Yummy Yummy") were actually the work of an assemblage of studio musicians working out of New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine.Yummy Yummy Yummy" is a bubblegum pop song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968. Their version reached #4 in the U.S. Pop Singles chart and #5 in the UK Singles Chart. It has since been covered by many artists. Ohio Express was a studio concoction and none of the "official" members appear on the record.

Joey Levine sang lead vocals. In the years since it was a hit, the song has become a cheesy staple. In Time Magazine's 2011 list of top 10 songs with silly lyrics it ranked #8. It has been used in a commercial for Kinder chocolate, in a food-themed scene in the television show The Simpsons, in Monty Python's Flying Circus in episode How Not to Be Seen, and in "Last McSupper" scene of the film Super Size Me. Category Julie London Albums: 1968 - 1969 Julie London Albums Arrangers: Kirk Stuart, Don Bagley, Allyn Ferguson Liner Notes by Al Stoffel: There are singers who let it fly from deep within and pour out red-faced bellows complete with bulging eyes and pulsating neck cords. They rip it up with big bands and belt it out until the sun comes up, then follow with swashbuckling encores that bring down the house with slaps-on-the-back and flamenco table top dances. Then there's Julie. No gala musical fanfare or big-sound glitter. No jokes, no jugglers, no soft-shoe.

Just a blues guitar, a well-placed bass, a drummer's light brush... and Julie. The combo provides a mere musical skeleton, a framework that serves only to complement the singer; it doesn't try to compete. The combination is distinctively blues... and distinctively Julie. Julie is a mysterious, sultry woman with a moist-eyed singing style and real feeling for loneliness. She can take a variety of material and adapt it perfectly to her nostalgic blue mood. Her rendition of "This Can't Be Love" is one of the best examples. The slight musical accompaniment serves only to enhance Julie's vocal mood. Even old timers like "Me And My Shadow" and "Bidin' My Time" come across like they were written especially for her. Julie won't change her style with the whims of the musical world - her "It Had To Be You" and "The Man I Love" will always be provoking and easy to understand. And people will always want to hear her. .. whenever they get in that Julie mood. No, she doesn't strain above the percussion and brass, and she has no aspirations to win the battle of the bands or shatter fine crystal with her vocal vibrations.

Her music is for the candlelight people - people who light fires in fireplaces and pull down bottles of Spanish Port from musty cupboards. She sings the way lonely people feel. And there's not a grin in the place. Our Reviews If you'd like to share your own review of Easy Does It here, please e-mail me. Show Me the Way to Go Home Irving King D. Jones-Dryer - A. Jolson - B. Rose Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year Frank Loesser I'll See You In My Dreams G. Kahn - I. Jones It Had To Be You G. Kahn - I. Jones The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else G. Kahn - I. Jones Producer, Arranger, Conductor: Tommy Oliver CD Availability: 2005 Collectors' Choice Music (EMI Special Markets) 1969 Liner Notes: Julie's sensuality accents the sounds of Today! The unique "London Touch" styles The Doors, Nilsson, The Beatles, Spanky And Our Gang, The Monkees and many more. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" will satiate your musical hunger and bathe you in the warmth of Julie!

2005 CD Liner Notes by Greg Adams (excerpts): Julie London had already recorded a sexy rendition of the "Mickey Mouse March" for her 1967 album Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast, so the peculiar repertoire on 1969's Yummy, Yummy, Yummy didn't come entirely out of the blue. The idea that London's smoky, intimate voice could transform ridiculously inappropriate material into erotic torch songs was apparently too compelling for the powers-that-be at Liberty Records to resist. So "they"--with their perverse and deeply ironic senses of humor--saddled her with a crazy assortment of frat rock, folk rock, and bubblegum that, frankly, insulted her status as a serious but underrated jazz vocalist. How humiliating! The entire album is some kind of twisted joke! But, like the proverbial train wreck, one cannot help but stare with horror and (since no one got hurt) perhaps a little wicked amusement. That is one possible narrative, and a popular one among many collectors of "golden throats" records and novelty music who have seized upon London's final Liberty album as an example of crass music industry commercialism gone awry.

Another version of the story would point out that, like the original liner notes say, Yummy, Yummy, Yummy really is about Julie's sensuality accenting the sounds of today, with "today" referring to a time somewhere in the vicinity of 1969. Most of the songs were recent hits for soft pop groups that scored big on the adult contemporary charts, and London was definitely an "adult contemporary" kind of gal. So, just how weird is this album?... ...Yummy, Yummy, Yummy was produced, arranged and orchestrated by Tommy Oliver, who discovered Joanie Summers and produced a wide range of artists including Doris Day, Vikki Carr, Bob Lind and Jefferson Airplane. His arrangements for Yummy, Yummy, Yummy were full and lush, and Julie was every bit the stylist she ever was, but the material was far more contemporary and mainstream than anything she had yet attempted. Was it a tongue-in-cheek exercise? The recent soft pop hit status of practically all of the selections, and the commercial potential of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" as a single (it reached #125 in Billboard), suggest that the album is more easily justified than it may first appear.

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy begins with "Stoned Soul Picnic," Laura Nyro's impressionistic song that gave the 5th Dimension a Top 3 hit in 1968. It isn't too much of a stretch to draw a parallel between the sophisticated, atmospheric mood music that London created in the '50s and the introspective, complicated singer-songwriter music of composers such as Nyro and, as we'll hear momentarily, Margo Guryan. "Like to Get to Know You,"" was a pop and easy listening hit for Spanky & Our Gang in 1968. It is one of two Spanky covers on the album, with "Sunday Mornin'" being the other. "Sunday Mornin'" and "Come to Me Slowly" were written by the talented and enigmatic Margo Guryan, whose 1968 album Take a Picture contains her own recording of "Sunday Mornin'." After Spanky & Our Gang's hit cover, Oliver made the song a Top 15 easy listening hit in 1969.

The Doors' "Light My Fire" was a chart hit twice for the group, in 1967 and 1968, but London's reference point was certainly Jose Feliciano's Top 3 rendition from 1968. Seeing London interpret the Lizard King is another one of the album's startling moments at first glance, but she turns the song into such a sweet come-on that it's easy to gloss over all the mire and funeral pyres. "It's Nice to Be with You" was a minor hit for the Monkees in 1968, and "Hushabye Mountain" was taken from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The latter was written by the Walt Disney songwriting team Richard and Robert Sherman. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soundtrack album was on the Top 100 album chart in 1968-69, so "Hushabye Mountain," too, was a current song. It is an appealing pop ballad that does not explicitly reference the family movie from which it comes.

"Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo)" was a then-unreleased song from Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes sessions when Manfred Mann scored a Top 10 hit with it in 1968. London's version retains the flutes from Manfred Mann's arrangement, and is a minor masterpiece of cool understatement. Dylan himself admitted that he doesn't know what this song is about. "And I Love Him," a gender reversal of the Beatles "And I Love Her," was a hit for R&B singer Esther Phillips in 1965, and was also recored by Shirley Horn and Nancy Wilson, among others. "Without Him" is another gender-reversed cut, this time of Harry Nilsson's "Without Her" from 1967. This widely recorded song was not a hit for Nilsson, but was a Top 5 easy listening hit for Herb Albert in 1968. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy," the album's title track, was a very recent Top 5 bubblegum hit for Ohio Express that featured the adenoidal vocals of the song's co-writer, Joey Levine.

The listener will immediately note that, unlike the original, which sounds like a children's song, London's rendition of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" seems quite serious. The apparent absence of irony makes this recording an exceedingly dry joke, a visionary feat of interpretation, or both. The real irony is that "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" has become London's second best-remembered single after "Cry Me a River"--it was reissued on one of Capitol's Ultra-Lounge compilations in the '90s and, more recently, was included on the soundtrack of the HBO television series Six Feet Under. "Louie, Louie," the mother of garage-rock anthems, seems at first to rival "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" as the most inexplicable choice of repertoire on the album, but even this selection has its precedent in the soft pop canon. The Sandpipers, a gauzy folk-pop vocal group remembered for their rendition of "Guantanamera," followed up that 1966 hit with a similar treatment of "Louie, Louie." The song itself originated with R&B artist Richard Berry in an overtly seafaring, vaguely calypso-flavored recording.

In other words, if we ignore the Kingsmen's raucous version, even "Louie, Louie" is not too far afield.... ... [London's] recorded legacy has enjoyed renewed appreciation among jazz listeners in recent years, and now, thanks to fan requests, Yummy, Yummy, Yummy is available once again. Whether you hear it as a camp classic or a soft pop gem, I'm sure you'll agree that it is no embarrassment to London. Regardless of the setting, she was always the utmost in cool. All Music Guide review by Lindsay Planer: Pop standards vocalist/actress Julie London was definitely at a transitional phase in her career when she cut Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (1969) -- the final entry in her decade-and-a-half long relationship with Liberty Records. Modern listeners will revel in the obvious kitsch factor of a middle-aged, old-school female who is crooning rock & roll. Rightly so, as the two musical universes rarely collided with a lucrative outcome. However, just below the genre-bending veneer lie interesting interpretations of concurrently well-known selections with the occasional sleeper gem thrown in.

The lush and admittedly antiquated orchestration doesn't mask London's smoky and smouldering pipes, and some scores definitely work better than others. The opening cover of Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic," the adaptation of the Beatles' "And I Love Her," and the remarkably evocative "Hushabye Mountain" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) are each superior matches of artist with repertoire. Less successful is Harry Nilsson's "Without Him" [aka "Without Her"] as it lacks the urgency of Blood, Sweat & Tears' rendering or the pithy of Nilsson's original. The remake of Spanky & Our Gang's "Like to Get to Know You" is similarly short on soul, although it lends itself to the middle-of-the-road (MOR) feel, as does "It's Nice to Be With You." That said, the latter is infinitely more tolerable in this context than it was on the Davy Jones' warbled Monkees' single.

The seeming incongruity of London's take on the Doors' "Light My Fire" isn't all that odd until she lets her hair down (so to speak) and slips into something right out of The Graduate's Mrs. Robinson. There are several instances of 'What were they thinking?,' such as the practically surreal "Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo)" which sounds like it was the result of a Quaalude-related encounter. By the time we roll around to the title track, one can't tell if London is trying to be sexy or is simply hung over. "Sunday Morning" -- the second nod to Spanky & Our Gang -- also makes London come off as either bored or sleepy, either of which will be the effect that a majority of the album will inevitably have on 21st century ears. Our Reviews If you'd like to share your own review of Yummy, Yummy, Yummy here, please e-mail me. Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express Songfacts Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express Songfacts Songfacts This song is a classic hit of the Bubblegum genre, which is a very light style of music with catchy hooks and simple lyrics.

In the late '60s, Bubblegum Pop served as an alternative to the socially conscious music that was dominating the airwaves during an exceptionally turbulent cultural and political time. It was very popular with kids who had no interest in the music of Bob Dylan or The Doors, and who sought out music that was basically meaningless, but fun. Joey Levine, who was the lead singer of the Ohio Express, wrote this with Arthur Resnick, who also wrote " Under The Boardwalk " and " Good Lovin' ." Levine worked for Buddah Records under the direction of Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, who used studio musicians to back up Levine on this song. Floyd Marcus is the drummer for the 1910 Fruitgum Company, who also recorded for Buddah Records and recorded many of the same songs as The Ohio Express. Floyd told us: "Joey had brought in a demo of 'Yummy Yummy Yummy,' and often back then the demos were not nearly as sophisticated as what you can do at your house today with Pro Tools - they want much more finished product these days.

But Joey went and he did 'Yummy Yummy Yummy' as a demo, and Jeff and Jerry said, 'Yeah, we're going to take you to the studio and do this.' And before they knew it, the demo was out on the market. So it became a big hit, but you know, The Ohio Express wasn't really happy with it going out that way. They never had meant it to go out in the form it did. So it just shows you that often people don't really know what they have, and they don't really understand the business as well as some of these guys who are producing or managing." Some listeners believed the lyrics "I got love in my tummy" were about pregnancy. Floyd Marcus talks about this phenomenon: "There's that whole story about '1, 2, 3 Red Light' being this underlying date rape song. But you know, that just goes along with people wanting to make more out of things than they really are. I mean, it's like saying when John Lennon said ' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds ' wasn't about LSD, or "Little Susie's Dream" by The Tradewinds, because of the initials, LSD, people read into those things.

Hey, it's good for promo. People often want to give more meaning to things than they really have." (Check out our interview with Floyd Marcus .) This was used in an episode of The Simpsons where in a flashback to 1969, Homer is singing this song while ignoring the moon landing. The Best of the Ohio Express: Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic The Best of the Ohio Express: Yummy Yummy Yummy AllMusic Rating google+ AllMusic Review by Lindsay Planer The Best of the Ohio Express: Yummy Yummy Yummy serves up 14 jaw-aching tracks from the chewy, chewy center of the late '60s synthesized pop music otherwise known as bubblegum pop. The efforts of the revolving-door stream of musicians who performed and recorded under the Ohio Express moniker is the focus of this succinct compilation that clocks in at shortly over a half hour. The Buckeye-based Ohio Express were originally called Sir Timothy & the Royals -- a teenage garage band working locally for weekend gigs such as parties, school proms, and so on. They were scouted by producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz .

Their unwillingness to take their cues from the hitmaking Kasenetz and Katz assured that any future autonomy would be doubtful. As had become the tradition with their labelmates and chart rivals the 1910 Fruitgum Company and the Lemon Pipers , recordings were issued by a band using the same Ohio Express name. Kasenetz and Katz released these records with little or no regard for the band formerly known as Sir Timothy & the Royals back in Ohio -- who were now also known as the Ohio Express . Confused yet? Their biggest hit, "Yummy Yummy Yummy," had first been offered to -- and rejected by -- Jay & the Techniques, who were searching for a follow up to "Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie." The session musician and lead vocalist on the track so impressed the label, he was deemed the Ohio Express ' lead singer.

Other charting hits for the band included on this collection include: "Chewy Chewy," "Sweeter Than Sugar," and "Mercy." Nearing the end of Kasenetz and Katz 's run with the Ohio Express was the country-rock flavor heard on "Sausalito (Is the Place to Go)." The backing group would eventually become the core of 10cc on this seminal Graham Gouldman composition. Track Listing The Ohio Express, 'Yummy Yummy Yummy' | Top 10 Songs with Silly Lyrics | TIME.com Top 10 Songs with Silly Lyrics By Samantha Rollins March 15, 2011 Artist: Get This Album While most song lyrics often refer to feeling love in one’s heart, the Ohio Express begs to differ. According to their hit single, “Yummy Yummy Yummy,” love is felt, believe it or not, in your tummy. The rest of this bubblegum pop hit doesn’t do much more explaining, though, aside from likening one’s love to sugar and spices and using punny pick up lines (“Kinda sounds funny/ But your love’s honey/ And honey, I love you”).

Still, it seems that people in 1968 felt love somewhere in their bodies for the Ohio Express, and the single rose high up the charts. Since then, however, the song has transformed from a pop hit to a cheesy staple — it’s been used in food commercials (Kinder chocolate), food-themed scenes in television shows (The Simpsons) and films (the “Last McSupper” scene of Super Size Me). Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express | Astromonkey | God's Jukebox Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express From the Ohio Express Wiki page: "The Ohio Express then moved to the home label of bubblegum pop, Buddah Records. At the same time, Joey Levine (who had co-written "Try It") was coming up with new material for the Ohio Express at the behest of Super K Productions. He recorded a demo version of the track "Yummy Yummy Yummy" with Super K staff musicians and his own guide vocal for the Ohio Express to record over. However, Buddah head Neil Bogart liked the demo enough that he released the record "as is", with Levine's vocals intact and no input at all from the touring version of the Ohio Express.

The song became an international smash hit, peaking at #4 US, #5 UK, #5 Ireland, #7 Australia and #1 Canada. Two months after its issue it had sold over one million copies, being granted gold disc status by the R.I.A.A. in June 1968.[6] The success of the Levine-led "Yummy Yummy Yummy" set a pattern for the Ohio Express. They released four LPs and a multitude of singles for Buddah between 1968 and 1970, but the "official" group that appeared on album sleeves and at live shows contributed not a single note to their hit singles. For the year following the release of "Yummy Yummy Yummy", all Ohio Express singles were co-written and sung by Levine, with musical accompaniment by anonymous New York session musicians. Under this arrangement, in 1968 and 1969 the group scored three further top 40 hits in the US, Canada and Australia with "Down at Lulu's", "Chewy Chewy" and "Mercy".

"Chewy Chewy" was the group's second million seller by March 1969.[6] Also around this time, the group name lost the definite article, becoming "Ohio Express" for most releases from this point forward. There are no known occasions of Levine performing with the "official" Ohio Express quintet, either live or in the studio. The five lads from Ohio, meanwhile, could only be heard on a few of the album tracks. Allegedly, the touring group was not even informed of the existence of "Chewy Chewy", the new single that had come out under their name—and when fans requested it at a live show, they were consequently unable to play it." Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - 1969 Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - 1969 Julie's sensuality accents the sounds of Today! The unique "London Touch" styles The Doors, Nilsson, The Beatles, Spanky And Our Gang, The Monkees and many more. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" will satiate your musical hunger and bathe you in the warmth of Julie!

2005 CD Liner Notes by Greg Adams: Julie London had already recorded a sexy rendition of the "Mickey Mouse March" for her 1967 album Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast, so the peculiar repertoire on 1969's Yummy, Yummy, Yummy didn't come entirely out of the blue. The idea that London's smoky, intimate voice could transform ridiculously inappropriate material into erotic torch songs was apparently too compelling for the powers-that-be at Liberty Records to resist. So "they"--with their perverse and deeply ironic senses of humor--saddled her with a crazy assortment of frat rock, folk rock, and bubblegum that, frankly, insulted her status as a serious but underrated jazz vocalist. How humiliating! The entire album is some kind of twisted joke! But, like the proverbial train wreck, one cannot help but stare with horror and (since no one got hurt) perhaps a little wicked amusement. That is one possible narrative, and a popular one among many collectors of "golden throats" records and novelty music who have seized upon London's final Liberty album as an example of crass music industry commercialism gone awry.

Another version of the story would point out that, like the original liner notes say, Yummy, Yummy, Yummy really is about Julie's sensuality accenting the sounds of today, with "today" referring to a time somewhere in the vicinity of 1969. Most of the songs were recent hits for soft pop groups that scored big on the adult contemporary charts, and London was definitely an "adult contemporary" kind of gal. So, just how weird is this album?... ...Yummy, Yummy, Yummy was produced, arranged and orchestrated by Tommy Oliver, who discovered Joanie Summers and produced a wide range of artists including Doris Day, Vikki Carr, Bob Lind and Jefferson Airplane. His arrangements for Yummy, Yummy, Yummy were full and lush, and Julie was every bit the stylist she ever was, but the material was far more contemporary and mainstream than anything she had yet attempted. Was it a tongue-in-cheek exercise? The recent soft pop hit status of practically all of the selections, and the commercial potential of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" as a single (it reached #125 in Billboard), suggest that the album is more easily justified than it may first appear.

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy begins with "Stoned Soul Picnic," Laura Nyro's impressionistic song that gave the 5th Dimension a Top 3 hit in 1968. It isn't too much of a stretch to draw a parallel between the sophisticated, atmospheric mood music that London created in the '50s and the introspective, complicated singer-songwriter music of composers such as Nyro and, as we'll hear momentarily, Margo Guryan. "Like to Get to Know You,"" was a pop and easy listening hit for Spanky & Our Gang in 1968. It is one of two Spanky covers on the album, with "Sunday Mornin'" being the other. "Sunday Mornin'" and "Come to Me Slowly" were written by the talented and enigmatic Margo Guryan, whose 1968 album Take a Picture contains her own recording of "Sunday Mornin'." After Spanky & Our Gang's hit cover, Oliver made the song a Top 15 easy listening hit in 1969.

The Doors' "Light My Fire" was a chart hit twice for the group, in 1967 and 1968, but London's reference point was certainly Jose Feliciano's Top 3 rendition from 1968. Seeing London interpret the Lizard King is another one of the album's startling moments at first glance, but she turns the song into such a sweet come-on that it's easy to gloss over all the mire and funeral pyres. "It's Nice to Be with You" was a minor hit for the Monkees in 1968, and "Hushabye Mountain" was taken from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The latter was written by the Walt Disney songwriting team Richard and Robert Sherman. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soundtrack album was on the Top 100 album chart in 1968-69, so "Hushabye Mountain," too, was a current song. It is an appealing pop ballad that does not explicitly reference the family movie from which it comes.

"Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo)" was a then-unreleased song from Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes sessions when Manfred Mann scored a Top 10 hit with it in 1968. London's version retains the flutes from Manfred Mann's arrangement, and is a minor masterpiece of cool understatement. Dylan himself admitted that he doesn't know what this song is about. "And I Love Him," a gender reversal of the Beatles "And I Love Her," was a hit for R&B singer Esther Phillips in 1965, and was also recored by Shirley Horn and Nancy Wilson, among others. "Without Him" is another gender-reversed cut, this time of Harry Nilsson's "Without Her" from 1967. This widely recorded song was not a hit for Nilsson, but was a Top 5 easy listening hit for Herb Albert in 1968. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy," the album's title track, was a very recent Top 5 bubblegum hit for Ohio Express that featured the adenoidal vocals of the song's co-writer, Joey Levine.

The listener will immediately note that, unlike the original, which sounds like a children's song, London's rendition of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" seems quite serious. The apparent absence of irony makes this recording an exceedingly dry joke, a visionary feat of interpretation, or both. The real irony is that "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" has become London's second best-remembered single after "Cry Me a River"--it was reissued on one of Capitol's Ultra-Lounge compilations in the '90s and, more recently, was included on the soundtrack of the HBO television series Six Feet Under. "Louie, Louie," the mother of garage-rock anthems, seems at first to rival "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" as the most inexplicable choice of repertoire on the album, but even this selection has its precedent in the soft pop canon. The Sandpipers, a gauzy folk-pop vocal group remembered for their rendition of "Guantanamera," followed up that 1966 hit with a similar treatment of "Louie, Louie." The song itself originated with R&B artist Richard Berry in an overtly seafaring, vaguely calypso-flavored recording.

In other words, if we ignore the Kingsmen's raucous version, even "Louie, Louie" is not too far afield.... ... [London's] recorded legacy has enjoyed renewed appreciation among jazz listeners in recent years, and now, thanks to fan requests, Yummy, Yummy, Yummy is available once again. Whether you hear it as a camp classic or a soft pop gem, I'm sure you'll agree that it is no embarrassment to London. Regardless of the setting, she was always the utmost in cool. Track Listing Ohio Express - Best of the Ohio Express - Amazon.com Music Best of the Ohio Express Audio CD | Remastered Audio CD, Original recording remastered, April 3, 2001 $11.98 $11.98 + $3.99 shipping Only 1 left in stock. Ships from and sold by Media Medley . Frequently Bought Together Add all three to Cart Add all three to List These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. Show details Buy the selected items together This item:Best of the Ohio Express by Ohio Express Audio CD $11.98 Only 1 left in stock. Ships from and sold by Media Medley.

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Get a $50 Amazon.com Gift Card instantly upon approval for the Amazon Rewards Visa Card Apply now Editorial Reviews Bubblegum pop doesn't come any sweeter than this: Yummy Yummy Yummy; Chewy Chewy; Mercy; Down at Lulu's; Sweeter Than Sugar; Sausalito , and 8 more. Stream The Best of the Ohio Express by Ohio Express and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with Amazon Music Unlimited . Exclusive discount for Prime members. Sample this album Artist (Sample) 1 Listen Now $0.99 Sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC. Additional taxes may apply. By placing your order, you agree to our Terms of Use . Product Details Audio CD (April 3, 2001) Number of Discs: 1 By AnotherMusicExpert on August 22, 2001 Format: Audio CD After labels like Sundazed, Bear Family & others do such great packaging these days I was disappointed to see the small 3 page booklet. Sound quality is best I've heard (and this stuff has been so shabbily released in the past), so thumbs up there.

At the same time I was disappointed with a few points: first 14 songs...come on, we all know you can get 74+ minutes of music on a CD. Next, the version of "1,2,3 Redlight" is NOT the popular hit version, but a second rate out-take. Would have loved to hear the hit version remastered like the others. And finally, poor research as far as the song compilation - they have excluded two songs "Try It" and "Cowboy Convention" which charted for the group. Isn't that the idea of a "Best Of" package? Overall, great sound but some disappointments from Buddha. By George O'Leary TOP 500 REVIEWER on September 11, 2007 Format: Audio CD I couldn't agree more with reviewer RRiis. This is happy-time music from an era that had more than its share of trouble, reflected in morose, crÃªpe-hanging tunes like Eve Of Destruction and In The Year 2525.

Consequently, the supercilious types at Rolling Stone go overboard in their condemnation of "bubble-gum music" - even in the face of their huge - if short-term - popularity.

Along with the informative liner notes by Kim Cooper, Co-editor of Bubblegum Music, you get all seven of the group's hits with the Buddah label, these being: Yummy Yummy Yummy (# 4 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in June 1968 b/w Zig Zag); Down At Lulu's (# 33 H100 in August/September 1968 b/w She's Not Coming Home(; Chewy Chewy (# 15 H100 in November 1968 b/w Firebird); Sweeter Than Sugar (# 96 H100 in March 1969 b/w Bitter Lemon); Mercy (# 30 H100 April/May 1969 b/w Roll It Up); Pinch Me [Baby, Convince Me] (# 99 H100 June 1969 b/w Peanuts); and Sausalito [Is The Place To Go] (# 86 H100 September 1969 b/w Make Love Not War.

Joey Levine, who also sang lead with The Third Rail on Epic and later with Reunion, takes the lead on the first five hits above, while Bobby Bengert does the honors on Pinch Me, and on Sausalito it's Graham Gouldman, who also sang with 10cc. My only disappointment is that the producers did not [could not?] include their only other two charters: Beg, Borrow And Steal, # 29 H100 in 1967 [actually recorded earlier for the Attack label as by The Rare Breed), and 1968's # 83 H100 Try It - both for the Cameo label - and that just two of the Buddah B-sides are included. However, what's here is enjoyable and if you get this and the companion CD The Best Of The 1910 Fruitgum Co. you'll have some of the most danceable and enjoyable tunes from the late 1960s. Despite what Rolling Stone thinks. By Matthew G.

Sherwin HALL OF FAME TOP 1000 REVIEWER on April 15, 2009 Format: Audio CD People can say whatever they want about bubblegum music; but it provided many, many people with good tunes and a real alternative to hard rock back in the day. These tunes got their fair share of airplay and lots of people bought their records, too. The Best of the Ohio Express: Yummy Yummy Yummy features Ohio Express in a most positive light; and that's terrific. The quality of the sound on this album is excellent; and I really like that artwork, too. The CD starts off with Ohio Express singing "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy." While this tune has the silliest of titles, the sound is actually very cool and these guys harmonize to play this one up right! "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" has a rockin' flavor to it and they rightfully got good airplay from this number. The guitar work is very good, too. "Nothing Sweeter Than My Baby" has that signature Ohio Express sound; these guys never let go of a superfluous note and the music that accompanies the vocals couldn't be better!

"Sweeter Than Sugar" gets the royal treatment from Ohio Express; this has some great music and Ohio Express bats this straight out of the ballpark! They harmonize the chorus very well and again they use the guitars to great advantage on "Sweeter Than Sugar." "Nighttime" has a fine arrangement that is easy on the ear; and listen for Ohio Express to outdo even themselves on "Chewy, Chewy." "Chewy, Chewy" features Ohio Express squarely front and center--and they deserved this spotlight. The music complements the vocals without ever drowning the singers out; and Ohio Express was very well coordinated to come up with this tune. "She's Not Comin' Home" has a pretty melody even with its minor keys; and I really like "Gimme Gimme." "Gimme Gimme" has a great `60s beat to it and Ohio Express does this with all the skill of the experienced musicians they truly were.

"1, 2, 3, Red Light" is also very well done; and there's a true gem in "Down at Lulu's." "Down at Lulu's" has a very `60s sound to it that is just a touch like the Beach Boys sound with those backup vocalists; and it all holds its own very well. "Sausalito (Is the Place to Go)" showcases yet again the fine talents of Ohio Express; this tune has a rockin' flavor to it that still gets me tapping my feet to the beat today! "Sausalito (Is the Place to Go)" is a good number and a highlight of this album. "Pinch Me (Baby, Convince Me)" makes good use of the drums and percussion; and the album ends strong with Ohio Express performing "Mercy." "Mercy" is a well done tune and that melody leaves you wanting more--it's infectiously catchy and that's awesome. Ohio Express really turned out some great numbers in their time. This album doesn't have every one of their "best" and so I can only give this CD a four star review.

However, don't let that deter you from trying this one out; it does indeed have some terrific bubblegum songs from one of the most successful `60s groups, Ohio Express. It makes a strong starter CD for people just discovering Ohio Express, too. Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy - 1968 - Music Videos,Lyrics Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy - 1968 Lyrics Help preserve America's Music Tradition and suggest your lyrics here. Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy - 1968 Playlist: Pause Some trivia about Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy - 1968 "Yummy Yummy Yummy" is a bubblegum pop song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968. Their version reached #4 in the U.S. Pop Singles chart and #5 in the UK Singles Chart. It has since been covered by many artists. Ohio Express was a studio concoction, and none of the "official" members appear on the record. Joey Levine sang lead vocals.

Joey Levine sang "Yummy Yummy Yummy" live for the first time ever in Henderson, Tennessee at the Caravan Of Stars XV, on May 17, 2008. In the years it was a hit the song has become a cheesy staple. In Time Magazine's 2011 list of top 10 songs with silly lyrics it ranked number 8. It was used in a commercial for Kinder chocolate, in a food theme scene for the television shows The Simpsons and in "Last McSupper" scene of the film Super Size Me. [1] Play time: 2:23 FACEBOOK - CLICK HERE to see our top picks of the day on our music group on Facebook! To post this song into Facebook...just copy the URL and past it into the Facebook comment field More Ohio Express Free Music Videos and songs To Listen and watch Artist Ohio Express album music videos... Just click on the song title links that you see below, to play. Your Free Music Videos Playlist By default, we play all of our songs randomly selected from our playlist; however, you can choose the songs you want played by selecting all or some songs below and adding them to your playlist.

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Question: Who had a hit in 1968 with Yummy Yummy Yummy
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